Reviewers of the 1882 Impressionist exhibition were dazzled by this "very appealing" still life of "a certain fruit bowl of 'Peaches,' whose velvety execution verges on a trompe l'oeil." Painted the previous summer at the country house of his patron Paul Bérard, it is one of two still lifes that feature the same faïence jardinière; the other version also belongs to the Metropolitan Museum.

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"August Renoir: Still Life with Peaches" (61.101.12) In
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/61.101.12. (May 2011)